Gacela of Unforseen Love
Gacela of Unforseen Love - form Summary
Gacela's Elliptical Longing
This poem is a modern Spanish gacela: a compact, lyric form that folds intense, erotic images into a single sustained declaration. Its spare stanzas and recurring siempre
give the voice a chantlike, obsessive quality. The form’s brevity heightens contrasts—sensual details, mythic metaphors and a sudden elegiac close—so the structure itself shapes the movement from desire to loss rather than developing an extended narrative.
No one understood the perfume of the dark magnolia of your womb Nobody knew that you tormented a hummingbird of love between your teeth. A thousand Persian little horses fell asleep in the plaza with moon of your forehead, while through four nights I embraced your waist, enemy of the snow. Between plaster and jasmins, your glance was a pale branch of seeds. I sought in my heart to give you the ivory letters that say "siempre", "Siempre", "siempre": garden of my agony, your body elusive always, that blood of your veins in my mouth, your mouth already lightless for my death.
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